More On Slots

The New York Times has more on the hearing about slot restrictions at the New York airports today.

Democrats Vow to Block Airport-Slot Sale

But D. J. Gribbin, the department’s general counsel, said that because of the limits on who can fly in and out of the airports, the slots should go to those who would make best use of them, and “we thought the auction mechanism was the best one to identify who values it most.”

I don’t have the time to argue with that statement at the moment. In that I don’t have any time, hopefully you do. Did you do as I suggested before and check out the names in a news story ? Did you check out Mr. D.J. Gribbin when you read his name yesterday ? Nothing says you have to stop with a name. You’re probably already familiar with the Christian Coalition but what do you know about Koch Industries ?

When someone is talking about “best” and “value”, some insight as to how they define the terms can be useful.

Don Brown
June 21, 2008